Various — Bestway" Cookery Gift Books

London, Offices of the "Best Way" Series, c1922-1930. Cloth. Eight smart volumes from the "Bestway" cookery series which "tells you all those important details other cookery books leave out". Eight volumes, being the second to ninth books in the series. From the "Bestway" series, with the sub-title "which tells you all those important details other cookery books leave out!" A practical set of recipe books written for housewives, with tips and hints for great dishes every time. Each volume contains a collection of tried, tested, and photographed recipes to provide some reassurance to the reader that not only has the recipe proved successful before, but you can also see how the finished dish should look. Containing an assortment of recipes including: Soups, Fish Dishes, Game and Poultry, Meat Dishes, Vegetables, Salads, Pastry, Hot Sweets, Cold Sweets, Savouries and Supper Dishes, Bread, Rolls and Scones, and all sorts of Cakes. With an index to the rear of each volume. This set contains: Second Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with cakes and buns. Third Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with soups. Fourth Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with large cakes. Fifth Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with small cakes. Sixth Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with cake-making secrets. Seventh Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with scones and biscuits. Eighth Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with soups and fish dishes. Ninth Book - illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Recipes for this volume begin with small cakes. Collated complete. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the joints of the odd volume. Front hinges starting but firm to each volume, with sympathetic repairs to the second book made with tape. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .